If you change sterling to USD then change that to Kenyan shillings you will have two lots of exchange/commission.

It´s a long till since we were in Kenya, but we changed sterling to shillings when we were there. The bank gave a better rate than the hotels.

I´m pretty sure we paid for the safari in shillings as well, but it may have changed now and they do accept sterling.

luci

Hi just returned from Kenya in Oct, had a great time ! The best way we found was to take some shillings and some dollars then use atm's as neccessary (having been back for 2 months no prob with atm) you can spend dollars in most places but not sterling. Most tips gratefully recieved in dollars ! Did an 8 day safari again loved it we used an operator (i can give u company name if allowed ?) paid half deposit by bank transfer and other half when we got there all paid in dollars.

Hope this helps, just ask if u need any more info will help if i can

Hi and welcome to HT!

Thanks for the information which should be useful.

Can I ask that you do not use phone style text, eg u instead of you? Some of our visually impaired members use Screen Readers that do not recognise this type of text.

Thanks.

luci